Website speed

Ronaldo9 wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a newbie in website building. I just built a website for freeware
> and shareware download. As my host is local in China, I don't know
> whether is convenient for the people outside China to visit my site.
> Could you guys help me test my website speeds.
> I want to know whether is CRAWLS for your to browse when you local in
> US or European. And all kinds of suggestion are welcome.
> I swear there is no virus or spam in my website. You all can visit it
> safely.
> My website is http://www.sharewaredown.com.
> Besides, I have test the host in some website monitor service company,
> and the result is as below. Is the data shows a good condition or a
> bad condition?
>


Very slow here, also. I'm getting simple ping times of 500-520 ms. The
page itself takes forever to load - I stopped timing when it was over a
minute. It eventually showed up, but under normal conditions I would
have been gone.

Part of that is the slow times, but another part is the 114K size (not
including images and your external js and css files). You can cut some
by optimizing your CSS, but maybe you should also look at cutting down
how much you have on your home page.



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Jerry Stuckle wrote at
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 05:48:30 -0500
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 06:47:46 -0400:

> Very slow here, also.

Congratulations, Jerry: you are clearly ahead of the rest of us. ;-)
Where I am, it's still Wednesday.

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John Hosking wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote at
> NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 05:48:30 -0500
> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 06:47:46 -0400:
>
>> Very slow here, also.
>
> Congratulations, Jerry: you are clearly ahead of the rest of us. ;-)
> Where I am, it's still Wednesday.
>

LOL. Want to know the winners in yesterday's lottery? :-)

I adjusted the clock on my system and looks like I clicked on the date
by mistake!

Thanks for letting me know.

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Thanks wackzingo, Brian, Jerry, DoobieDo, Andy, John, saz, Beauregard.
Thanks for all the guy test my website and give me such useful
information and suggestion.
Thank you very much.
Accroding to your replies, I realised that my website is actually
slow. There is no argument about this.
Now how about the solution?? How shall I do next step?
In my poor opinion, I think I shall hire an abroad host. But which
host is good, can you guys recommend some?
Second, optimize my website? But I actually have no idea how to do.
Reduce the contects? Reduce the tables? Reduce the images?
How uesless I am! But I will not give up to host my website. Because
it's my hobby. And I believe I will do better with your help! Thanks
again!
Best Regards.
SharewareDown
www.SharewareDown.com

Thanks wackzingo, Brian, Jerry, DoobieDo, Andy, John, saz, Beauregard.
Thanks for all the guy test my website and give me such useful
information and suggestion.
Thank you very much.
Accroding to your replies, I realised that my website is actually
slow. There is no argument about this.
Now how about the solution?? How shall I do next step?
In my poor opinion, I think I shall hire an abroad host. But which
host is good, can you guys recommend some?
Second, optimize my website? But I actually have no idea how to do.
Reduce the contects? Reduce the tables? Reduce the images?
How uesless I am! But I will not give up to host my website. Because
it's my hobby. And I believe I will do better with your help! Thanks
again!
Best Regards.
SharewareDown
www.SharewareDown.com

Ronaldo9 wrote:
> Thanks wackzingo, Brian, Jerry, DoobieDo, Andy, John, saz, Beauregard.
> Thanks for all the guy test my website and give me such useful
> information and suggestion.
> Thank you very much.
> Accroding to your replies, I realised that my website is actually
> slow. There is no argument about this.
> Now how about the solution?? How shall I do next step?
> In my poor opinion, I think I shall hire an abroad host. But which
> host is good, can you guys recommend some?
> Second, optimize my website? But I actually have no idea how to do.
> Reduce the contects? Reduce the tables? Reduce the images?
> How uesless I am! But I will not give up to host my website. Because
> it's my hobby. And I believe I will do better with your help! Thanks
> again!
> Best Regards.
> SharewareDown
> www.SharewareDown.com
>

Ronaldo,

No, no need to give up your website just because of poor performance
from your host. Get another host.

But you can clean up your code some, making it much shorter. For
instance, you have a lot of lines like:

<a href='/Shareware/Education'><span style='width:100%;font-size:12px;
font-family:Arial; line-height:16px; vertical-align:middle;
margin-left:0.5em;cursor:hand; color:#3366CC'>Education</span></a><br>

Use CSS and set the default font-family for your page to Arial. Then
change it if you need to.

For your font-size you're using pixels, i.e. 12px. Don't use pixels;
people with vision problems could be using a larger size as the default
and this doesn't let them change the size in some browsers (i.e.
Internet Explorer). Rather, let it default (or set it for your body
text) to 100%, and if you want larger text use percentages - i.e. where
you have 16px you could use 133%.

Make more use of CSS; you could create a CSS style such as:

mylink {width:100%; line-height: 133%; vertical-align-middle;
margin-left:0.5em; cursor:hand; color:#3366CC}

Then all you need is

<a href='/Shareware/Education' class="mylink'>Education</a></br>

There's a lot similar you can do with the page.

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I feel so sorry for postting so many same messages!
When I post a message, I consider that was failed. So I post it again.
But next day when I come back, I see three same messages that I
posted.
So I feel very sorry.
Feel confuse about the Google Group Syetem.
Sorry!

Best Regards.
SharewareDown
www.SharewareDown.com

On May 18, 1:49 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> No, no need to give up your website just because of poor performance
> from your host. Get another host.
>
> But you can clean up your code some, making it much shorter. For
> instance, you have a lot of lines like:
>
> <a href='/Shareware/Education'><span style='width:100%;font-size:12px;
> font-family:Arial; line-height:16px; vertical-align:middle;
> margin-left:0.5em;cursor:hand; color:#3366CC'>Education</span></a><br>
>
> Use CSS and set the default font-family for your page to Arial. Then
> change it if you need to.
>
> For your font-size you're using pixels, i.e. 12px. Don't use pixels;
> people with vision problems could be using a larger size as the default
> and this doesn't let them change the size in some browsers (i.e.
> Internet Explorer). Rather, let it default (or set it for your body
> text) to 100%, and if you want larger text use percentages - i.e. where
> you have 16px you could use 133%.
>
> Make more use of CSS; you could create a CSS style such as:
>
> mylink {width:100%; line-height: 133%; vertical-align-middle;
> margin-left:0.5em; cursor:hand; color:#3366CC}
>
> Then all you need is
>
> <a href='/Shareware/Education' class="mylink'>Education</a></br>
>
> There's a lot similar you can do with the page.
>
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Jerry,
Thanks for advising. I would try to follow your suggestion to optimize
my website.
After I finish the optimizing, welcome visit my website again to test!
But I think it will take quite a long time for me to hire another host
and optimize my website.
Thanks again!
Best Regards.
SharewareDown
www.SharewareDown.com